Ch. 4- The Eastern United States

Question 1

What is the most prominent landform in the eastern United States?

Answer 1

the Appalachian Mountains

Question 2

Name the seven chief ranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

Answer 2

Green Mountains
White Mountains
Catskills
Adirondacks
Alleghenies
Blue Ridge Mountains
Cumberland Mountains

Question 3

What is Mammoth Cave’s main distinction?

Answer 3

It is the largest known underground cave system in the world.

Question 4

What plateau lies between the Appalachian and the coastal plain?

Answer 4

Piedmont Plateau

Question 5

West of the Chesapeake Bay, what is the name of the area whose rivers and streams are affected by the Atlantic’s tides?

Answer 5

Tidewater Region

Question 6

What is the second largest body of water on earth?

Answer 6

Atlantic Ocean

Question 7

Give five facts about the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 7

The saltiest ocean
has few islands
the most important ocean for commerce
has been more closely studied than any other ocean
once contained the major fishing grounds of the world

Question 8

Why has the fishing industry in the Atlantic declined?

Answer 8

Because the waters were heavily fished for many years, restrictions have been placed on fishing. Fish that once were abundant are not less plentiful.

Question 9

What is wampum?

Answer 9

beads made from quahog shell

Question 10

How was wampum used?

Answer 10

It was used as gifts, tokens of friendship, and money

Question 11

How did American Indians use the black bear?

Answer 11

They used it for meat, for robes and blankets, and for fat to make their hair shine.

Question 12

What was one of the earliest cultures in the eastern and central United States?

Answer 12

Hopewell Indian culture

Question 13

What large structures did the Hopwell Indian people build?

Answer 13

Burial mounds

Question 14

Name the five nations of the Iroquois League of Five Nations (the largest Indian group in the eastern United States).

Answer 14

Mohawk
Oneida
Onondaga
Cayuga
Seneca

Question 15

Which tribe’s name meant “southerners”?

Answer 15

Shawnee

Question 16

The tribe of runaway slaves and other Indians living in the Everglades was called what?

Answer 16

Seminole

Question 17

What tribe helped the Pilgrims to survive?

Answer 17

Wampanoag

Question 18

Who introduced the Pilgrims to Chief Massasoit

Answer 18

Samoset

Question 19

What “Apostle to the Indians” translated the first complete Bible to be printed in America?

Answer 19

John Eliot

Question 20

What nickname was given to the people for whom John Eliot organized villages?

Answer 20

praying Indians

Question 21

What Swedish Lutheran missionary ministered to the Native Americans around his home?

Answer 21

John Campanius

Question 22

Who founded America’s first Baptist church and where did he minister?

Answer 22

Roger Williams; in what is now Rhode Island

Question 23

What young missionary traveled on horseback, despite pain from his illness, to share the gospel with the Indians? Who was his interpreter?

Answer 23

David Brainerd; Tattamy

Question 24

Which Native American chief helped translate parts of the Bible into Mohawk language?

Answer 24

Joseph Brant

Question 25

Who was the Shawnee chief who fought to keep European settlers out of Indian territory?

Answer 25

Tecumseh

Question 26

Who in invented a written language for the Cherokee?

Answer 26

Sequoya

Question 27

What was his system of syllable symbols called?

Answer 27

Syllabary

Question 28

What is the fourth largest country in the world?

Answer 28

United States

Question 29

Name the system of low mountain ranges in eastern North America extending nearly 2,000 miles from Canada to Alabama.

Answer 29

Appalachian Mts.

Question 30

Name the mountain pass used by settlers on their way west.

Answer 30

Cumberland Gap

Question 31

What is the largest known underground cave system in the world?

Answer 31

Mammoth Cave

Question 32

Which hilly, rolling land lies between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain?

Answer 32

Piedmont Plateau

Question 33

Name the world's second largest body of water which is also the world's saltiest ocean.

Answer 33

Atlantic Ocean

Question 34

Beads made from quahog shells, strung together, and used as gifts or money

Answer 34

wampum

Question 35

deer meat

Answer 35

venison

Question 36

a low, marshy area of tall grasses and swamps in what is now southern Florida; home of the Seminoles

Answer 36

Everglades

Question 37

the Indian converts of John Eliot

Answer 37

"Praying Indians"

Question 38

system of writing developed by Sequoya for the Cherokee

Answer 38

syllabary

Question 39

one of the earliest cultures in the Eastern Woodlands; famous for their burial mounds

Answer 39

Hopewell Indians

Question 40

Eastern Woodland Indians who traditionally lived in longhouses

Answer 40

Iroquois

Question 41

the largest Indian group in the eastern U.S.

Answer 41

Iroquois League of Five Nations

Question 42

"man-eaters"; the easternmost tribe of the League of Five Nations

Answer 42

Mohawks

Question 43

a tribe of Iroquois not in the League

Answer 43

Cherokees

Question 44

"southerners"; Indians of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana

Answer 44

Shawnee

Question 45

large and powerful nation who lived in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama

Answer 45

Creeks

Question 46

"runaway"; a mixture of Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, and runaway slaves

Answer 46

Seminoles

Question 47

Indians who met the Pilgrims

Answer 47

Wampanoag

Question 48

one of the most civilized tribes; kept a pictorial chronicle of their history and traditions

Answer 48

Delaware

Question 49

first Indian to greet the Pilgrims

Answer 49

Samoset

Question 50

"Apostle to the Indians"; first Bible printed in America was his translation of an Indian language

Answer 50

John Eliot

Question 51

Swedish Lutheran missionary who translated some of Martin Luther's catechism into the Delaware language

Answer 51

John Campanius

Question 52

Founder of Rhode Island and of America's first Baptist church

Answer 52

Roger Williams

Question 53

Young missionary who worked tirelessly among the Indians in spite of his poor health

Answer 53

David Brainerd

Question 54

David Brainerd's interpreter

Answer 54

Tattamy

Question 55

Mohawk chief who helped translate parts of the Bible into the Mohawk language

Answer 55

Joseph Brant

Question 56

Shawnee chief who fought to keep all white men out of Indian territory

Answer 56

Tecumseh

Question 57

Cherokee who invented a written language

Answer 57

Sequoya

Question 58

pheasant like bird native to the Eastern woodlands

Answer 58

wild turkey

Question 59

among the most important prey of woodland Indians

Answer 59

white-tailed deer

Question 60

also called American elk; important to Indians for their meat, hide, and antlers

Answer 60

wapiti

Question 61

One of the largest mammals in the Eastern Woodlands

Answer 61

black bear